diff --git a/src/Plots.jl b/src/Plots.jl
index 1d45c32fc..c17a62707 100644
--- a/src/Plots.jl
+++ b/src/Plots.jl
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ using Pkg
 const _plots_project = Pkg.Types.read_project(normpath(@__DIR__, "..", "Project.toml"))
 const _current_plots_version = _plots_project.version
 const _plots_compats = _plots_project.compat
+
 function _check_compat(sim::Module)
     sim_str = string(sim)
     haskey(_plots_compats, sim_str) || return nothing
@@ -28,16 +29,12 @@ function _check_compat(sim::Module)
     end
 end
 
-using Dates, Printf, Statistics, Base64, LinearAlgebra, Random, Unzip
-using RelocatableFolders
-using SnoopPrecompile
+using Dates, Printf, Statistics, Base64, LinearAlgebra, Random
 using SparseArrays
 using Base.Meta
 using Requires
 using Reexport
-using Scratch
-using FFMPEG
-using REPL
+using Unzip
 @reexport using RecipesBase
 @reexport using PlotThemes
 @reexport using PlotUtils
@@ -45,29 +42,29 @@ using REPL
 import RecipesBase: plot, plot!, animate, is_explicit, grid
 import RecipesPipeline
 import RecipesPipeline:
-    SliceIt,
-    DefaultsDict,
-    Formatted,
+    inverse_scale_func,
+    datetimeformatter,
     AbstractSurface,
-    Surface,
-    Volume,
-    is3d,
-    is_surface,
-    needs_3d_axes,
     group_as_matrix, # for StatsPlots
+    dateformatter,
+    timeformatter,
+    needs_3d_axes,
+    DefaultsDict,
+    scale_func,
+    is_surface,
+    Formatted,
     reset_kw!,
+    SliceIt,
+    Surface,
     pop_kw!,
-    scale_func,
-    inverse_scale_func,
-    dateformatter,
-    datetimeformatter,
-    timeformatter
+    Volume,
+    is3d
 import UnicodeFun
 import StatsBase
 import Downloads
 import Showoff
-import JSON
 import JLFzf
+import JSON
 
 #! format: off
 export
@@ -162,36 +159,19 @@ ignorenan_extrema(x::AbstractArray{<:AbstractFloat}) = NaNMath.extrema(x)
 ignorenan_extrema(x) = Base.extrema(x)
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------
-
-# to cater for block matrices, Base.transpose is recursive.
-# This makes it impossible to create row vectors of String and Symbol with the transpose operator.
-# This solves this issue, internally in Plots at least.
-
-# commented out on the insistence of the METADATA maintainers
-
-#Base.transpose(x::Symbol) = x
-#Base.transpose(x::String) = x
-
-# ---------------------------------------------------------
-
 import Measures
-
 include("plotmeasures.jl")
-
 using .PlotMeasures
 import .PlotMeasures: Length, AbsoluteLength, Measure, width, height
 # ---------------------------------------------------------
 
-# Use fixed version of Plotly instead of the latest one for stable dependency
-# Ref: https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Plots.jl/pull/2779
-const _plotly_min_js_filename = "plotly-2.6.3.min.js"
-
 include("types.jl")
 include("utils.jl")
 include("colorbars.jl")
 include("axes.jl")
 include("args.jl")
 include("components.jl")
+include("legend.jl")
 include("consts.jl")
 include("themes.jl")
 include("plot.jl")
@@ -206,54 +186,20 @@ include("backends.jl")
 include("output.jl")
 include("ijulia.jl")
 include("fileio.jl")
+
+# Use fixed version of Plotly instead of the latest one for stable dependency
+# Ref: https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Plots.jl/pull/2779
+const _plotly_min_js_filename = "plotly-2.6.3.min.js"
+const CURRENT_BACKEND = CurrentBackend(:none)
+const PLOTS_SEED = 1234
+
 include("init.jl")
-include("legend.jl")
 
 include("backends/plotly.jl")
-include("backends/gr.jl")
 include("backends/web.jl")
+include("backends/gr.jl")
 
 include("shorthands.jl")
-
-# ---------------------------------------------------------
-
-const CURRENT_BACKEND = CurrentBackend(:none)
-const PLOTS_SEED = 1234
-
-if get(ENV, "PLOTS_PRECOMPILE", "true") == "true"
-    @precompile_setup begin
-        n = length(_examples)
-        imports = sizehint!(Expr[], n)
-        examples = sizehint!(Expr[], 10n)
-        for i in setdiff(1:n, _backend_skips[:gr])
-            _examples[i].external && continue
-            (imp = _examples[i].imports) === nothing || push!(imports, imp)
-            func = gensym(string(i))
-            push!(examples, quote
-                $func() = begin  # evaluate each example in a local scope
-                    # @show $i  # debug
-                    $(_examples[i].exprs)
-                    if $i == 1  # only for one example
-                        fn = tempname()
-                        pl = current()
-                        gui(pl)
-                        savefig(pl, "$fn.png")
-                        savefig(pl, "$fn.pdf")
-                    end
-                    nothing
-                end
-                $func()
-            end)
-        end
-        withenv("GKSwstype" => "nul") do
-            @precompile_all_calls begin
-                eval.(imports)
-                gr()
-                eval.(examples)
-                # eventually eval for another backend ...
-            end
-        end
-    end
-end
+include("precompilation.jl")
 
 end
diff --git a/src/animation.jl b/src/animation.jl
index 324a4f3b0..44cc99804 100644
--- a/src/animation.jl
+++ b/src/animation.jl
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+using FFMPEG
+
 "Represents an animation object"
 struct Animation
     dir::String
diff --git a/src/init.jl b/src/init.jl
index a4aba6772..26baddf6e 100644
--- a/src/init.jl
+++ b/src/init.jl
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+using RelocatableFolders
+using Scratch
+using REPL
+
 const plotly_local_file_path = Ref{Union{Nothing,String}}(nothing)
 const BACKEND_PATH_GASTON = @path joinpath(@__DIR__, "backends", "gaston.jl")
 const BACKEND_PATH_HDF5 = @path joinpath(@__DIR__, "backends", "hdf5.jl")
diff --git a/src/plotmeasures.jl b/src/plotmeasures.jl
index af7bb16ec..7c9278493 100644
--- a/src/plotmeasures.jl
+++ b/src/plotmeasures.jl
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 module PlotMeasures
-import Measures
-import Measures:
+
+import ..Measures
+import ..Measures:
     Length, AbsoluteLength, Measure, BoundingBox, mm, cm, inch, pt, width, height, w, h
+
 const BBox = Measures.Absolute2DBox
 export BBox, BoundingBox, mm, cm, inch, px, pct, pt, w, h
 
@@ -15,4 +17,5 @@ Base.:*(m1::AbsoluteLength, m2::Length{:pct}) = AbsoluteLength(m1.value * m2.val
 Base.:*(m1::Length{:pct}, m2::AbsoluteLength) = AbsoluteLength(m2.value * m1.value)
 Base.:/(m1::AbsoluteLength, m2::Length{:pct}) = AbsoluteLength(m1.value / m2.value)
 Base.:/(m1::Length{:pct}, m2::AbsoluteLength) = AbsoluteLength(m2.value / m1.value)
+
 end
diff --git a/src/precompilation.jl b/src/precompilation.jl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1bba37c73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/precompilation.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+using SnoopPrecompile
+
+if get(ENV, "PLOTS_PRECOMPILE", "true") == "true"
+    @precompile_setup begin
+        n = length(_examples)
+        imports = sizehint!(Expr[], n)
+        examples = sizehint!(Expr[], 10n)
+        for i in setdiff(1:n, _backend_skips[:gr])
+            _examples[i].external && continue
+            (imp = _examples[i].imports) === nothing || push!(imports, imp)
+            func = gensym(string(i))
+            push!(examples, quote
+                $func() = begin  # evaluate each example in a local scope
+                    # @show $i  # debug
+                    $(_examples[i].exprs)
+                    if $i == 1  # only for one example
+                        fn = tempname()
+                        pl = current()
+                        gui(pl)
+                        savefig(pl, "$fn.png")
+                        savefig(pl, "$fn.pdf")
+                    end
+                    nothing
+                end
+                $func()
+            end)
+        end
+        withenv("GKSwstype" => "nul") do
+            @precompile_all_calls begin
+                eval.(imports)
+                gr()
+                eval.(examples)
+                # eventually eval for another backend ...
+            end
+        end
+    end
+end